EP 1455685 B1 20100512 - STENT GEOMETRY FOR IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY
Title (en)
STENT GEOMETRY FOR IMPROVED FLEXIBILITY
Title (de)
STENTGEOMETRIE MIT VERBESSERTER FLEXIBILITÄT
Title (fr)
G OM TRIE D'ENDOPROTH SE FLEXIBILIT AM LIOR E
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0231126 W 20020927
- US 2641301 A 20011221
Abstract (en)
[origin: US2003120334A1] A stent comprises one or more circumferential serpentine bands and having alternating peak portions and trough portions. The peak portions include shorter peak portions and longer peak portions. The longer peak portions are of a longitudinal extent greater than the shorter peak portions. The longer peak portions include first bent peak portions which extend in a first direction non-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stent and second bent peak portions which extend in a second direction non-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stent. Each first bent peak portion is circumferentially adjacent to one second bent peak portion which points toward the first bent peak portion and to one second bent peak portion which points away from the first bent peak portion. Adjacent first and second bent peak portions which point toward one another are separated one from the other by at least one shorter peak portion.
IPC 8 full level
A61F 2/91 (2013.01); A61F 2/915 (2013.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
A61F 2/91 (2013.01 - EP US); A61F 2/915 (2013.01 - EP US); A61F 2002/91508 (2013.01 - EP US); A61F 2002/91541 (2013.01 - EP US); A61F 2002/91558 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2003120334 A1 20030626; US 7537607 B2 20090526; AT E467397 T1 20100515; AU 2002341902 A1 20030724; CA 2466817 A1 20030717; DE 60236368 D1 20100624; EP 1455685 A1 20040915; EP 1455685 B1 20100512; JP 2005512756 A 20050512; JP 4344615 B2 20091014; US 2009248140 A1 20091001; WO 03057076 A1 20030717
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 2641301 A 20011221; AT 02776057 T 20020927; AU 2002341902 A 20020927; CA 2466817 A 20020927; DE 60236368 T 20020927; EP 02776057 A 20020927; JP 2003557439 A 20020927; US 0231126 W 20020927; US 47210609 A 20090526